IGN has word on layoffs at Defiance and RIFT developer Trion
Worlds, having confirmed the cuts after initially reporting this as a rumor. Their original report stated as much as 80% of the company's
staff was let go, but Trion says this is "exaggerated" (though no numbers are
provided as a correction), and also says reports that employees were being
escorted from buildings and that some executives would not be receiving
severance are "100% false." Here's Trion's official statement:

To best
position Trion in a rapidly changing industry, we have reorganized our teams and
are expanding our free to play offering. With Defiance, we delivered a great
game that more than one million gamers registered to play and continue to enjoy.
As we progress from launch to ongoing development of the game, we are adjusting
our staffing levels to deliver new content and improved features. RIFT, and our
other titles in development, were unaffected by these changes. We are very much
looking forward to the free to play release of RIFT and are excited by the other
new titles currently in development.

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Redmask wrote on May 18, 2013, 12:53:The thing about 50/50 guesses...they don't make you some sort of visionary

Cutter is one of those vaccinations cause autism clowns? El oh fucking el.

The real reason Cutter thinks he's always right is that every time he is right, he points it out. Every time he is wrong, no one gives enough fucks to call him on it. Someone could literally go through his post history and list hundreds of times he was wrong, but he knows no one is going to waste that kind of time on him.

Plus, like you said, even a broken clock is right twice a day. If you say everything sucks and everything is going to fail in an industry wher e most things do suck, and most things do fail, you're hardly showing any kind of special insight. You're just making the safe bet.

well despite his egotism alot of stuff does suck in remarkably unbelievable ways. Just look at everything EA has touched in the last few years, or blizzard the two main players in the game. Anyone can hear the suck coming for miles and miles, cutter is just more in-tune with suck, than most.